roosevelt went to college. so the younger theodore roosevelt only had this perspective on his father, perspective of, what should i say? a soldier age young man. he didn't grow to adulthood with his father when he to talk about this and realize that what his father had done was really the right thing. in fact, theodore roosevelt, jr. billy somehow his father failed, and he was going to correct this failure. and so, at the first opportunity as his sister said, this was the origin of the younger theodore with a military. this is part of my story when i write about this era of the gilded age. but a larger part of the story is the emergence of modern american. modern in an economic sense. modern in a political sense. modern and a diplomatic sense, and modern in a military sense. i told you some of the discussions that i have with my students. i'll tell you something else. i tried to get my students to boil down the lessons of history and to manageable size. and so i pass seriously -- have to say explain to my stude

it was when roosevelt got started. almost immediately, the more than great realized the lengths he was willing to go. at the beginning, roosevelt didn't understand how far he was going to go. the dupont family and the ones that set up the american liberty league. that was successful because they have unlimited amounts of money. there were so popular, they were not able to stop it. they began to finance right-wing think tanks. they have been successful to the university of chicago economics department and notable fraud such as milton freed man. the idea of neoliberalism is there should be massive, selective tax cuts. margaret thatcher it is there is no alternative. of course that's absurd. there was an alternative. we have to connect the dots to understand what is going on today. i read the chronicle. so what i've done is put together a montage of the murder of public sector, which is going on everyday. in fact all of the public sector is in body shape. public libraries, parks from the municipal to the national level. o

roosevelt got impatient and finally, roosevelt stops and put his hand on the new will post and the painter said that was it. he painted that on the landing of the stair with the shades pulled. that is how that portrait of roosevelt was done. it shows is power on a wall. if theodore roosevelt was to step out of that portrait, he would look around the room and say that was the east room. it is largely unchanged since the 1902 renovation. after 100 years of that room being kept up to date and it got progressively more victorian and exotic, he thought it should be more stately, more something a european would understand as a diplomatic set piece where he could do his business with foreign visitors. though it was gutted in the truman renovation, the work was copied to reproduce what was done in 1902. there were gold drapes and white walls. theodore roosevelt would feel extremely comfortable and pleased that when he left office, he got the american institute of architects to write a letter saying that the white house should be left as teddy roosevelt created it. it was presumptuous to think that

roosevelt enjoyed his life there. he would not have been happy in a rocking chair on the porch with nothing to do. >> why should i use a pussyfoot what? >> while we are used to seeing him standing at the podium: those who lived and worked at the white house either view him in a wheelchair or as this rare footage reveals, the metal leg braces he wears the remainder of his adult life after contracting polio in 1921. partly because of his limited mobility, the white house is the center of his presidency and he uses it and a handful of rooms inside to his advantage. >> i am happy to address this evening in this unique matter -- the >> utilizing the growing power of radio and film technology, fdr transforms how the offices seem, increasing its ability far beyond any before him. >> the had an acute awareness of the power of the white house. >> just below the south portico from where he addresses the nation is the entrance to the white house reserved for president, first ladies and their guests. leading into the first room i

the roosevelt library. t.r., his father, t.r., theodore roosevelt, they were interlinked authority figures who were always the sources, the targets of theodore geisel's children's satires. he did not like authoritarianism. whether it was in craven laycock or theodore roosevelt, or t.r., but he needed to work through that dislike, turned into aggression. which is why he wrote three ifs. so that's the only evidence. let's call it literary evidence, rather than factual. please. >> i have a story that goes back even further than your story. but i'm glad to hear how it was resolved. i've read the book. i went to the forest park zoo every sunday afternoon of my youth or childhood. and when i became a library at the ray school, i told the kids storied about the fact that his father was a zoo keeper. i may have embellished that a bit. but my mother's best friend went to elementary school with dr. seuss in springfield. and when i told her later on about this classmate of hers who becomes so famous. she was astounded

here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applause]. if you have lip gloss put it on right now. tuck your ties in ♪ >> thank you very much. >> one, two, three. ♪ ♪

guest: he flew from roosevelt field to la bourget. c-span: and roosevelt field is located where? guest: long island. c-span: long island. and la bourget is in paris. guest: in paris. c-span: a -- and... guest: and... c-span: go ahead. guest: and it took him 33 hours. c-span: did he stop anywhere along the way? guest: no. c-span: and it -- had any woman flown--in 1927, that would've been, i guess -- had any woman flown over the atlantic at all? guest: oh, no. no. c-span: not in any planes? guest: no. c-span: 'cause somewhere in your book, you say that back when flying was really active, in the early days, that 95 percent of the passengers were men. guest: yes. c-span: why was that? guest: well, because -- women were afraid of flying, so one of the reasons why-- but this comes later, a few years later, when airlines started to come into being, they decided that they had to give publicity to women so that women would begin to think that they could, in fact, fly and that men would realize that if women flew, they shouldn't be afraid of airplanes. c-span: we'll come back to the book i

upstairs, edith roosevelt dr. oz this map showing how crowded things are with the family in the offices -- and the offices still sharing space. the needs of the large family colliding with the growing responses of the -- responsibilities of the presidency. they are converted into family bedrooms on the stand and it will stay that way. when looking for a space to put the president, he had his own ideas. looked at the conservatory is where the west wing is located. "smash the glass houses." saying, i am not that kind of president. the glass houses disappeared. and then the west wing. >> considered temporary, the new office building is one story tall and i and it is a rectangular office where the president hangs a portrait of his favorite. > there are two kind of president, lincoln types and buchanan types. there was no doubt which he belongs to. it is not an accident that he put lincoln's portrait in a place of honor. he said when i look about that portrait, i asked myself what he would have done. the day he had swo

anyway, roosevelt definitely did not want to antagonize the japanese because as roosevelt discovered, roosevelt was one of the strong advocates of annexation of the philippines. and in 1898 and 1899 that seemed like a really good idea. but what roosevelt did not sufficiently appreciate was that the american people were, and i might even say are, essentially anti-imperialist at heart. and americans never, not from 1899 not until 1946 when the philippines got their independence, never sufficiently garrisoned the philippines against potential attack by whom? well, japan was the expansionist country in that part of the world. so roosevelt by 1905 was describing the philippines as, his term was our heel of achilles. it is all that gives us concern in our relations with japan. because this was an american colony, but it was indefensible if japanese made a concerted attack on the philippines when h was why roosevelt had to deal very gently with the japanese. and i'm not sure if there was another agreement besides this gentlemen's agreement because i don't know of the secret treaty you might

for roosevelt they have a number of chinese by literacy programs nearby. they are also considered a middle school but has a small number, so we could not put both the chinese program and the japanese program at that one side, so we thought to put the chinese program there, and that meant we could put the japanese program at presidio. they have had a history of providing japanese instruction as well. we look at the readiness and history of the school site. those are the considerations that were thought through for that particular middle school. >> in thinking of my personal experience and having gone to fairmont and having rallied families to bring it to school enrollments so they could go to everett -- could you explain that to me as well -- i am sorry. for months -- fairmont. thank you. you know what i mean. >> we had to carefully consider the balance. in the number of schools we did select, we did consider that, so firm on is a large school, and that is why it is placed at everett -- fairmont' is a large school, and that is why it was placed at everett.

franklin roosevelt lied a lot. in a good cause to get the united states when did johnson and my lot with vietnam's and today we are critical but we admire rose a bell from world war ii but they both live. and we have a first amendment of checks and balances because they know we cannot trust the people in power. fox news operates as the watchdog and they live. they lie all the time. they make things up and slander their opponents and work hand in glove with politicians from political organizations and make no apology for it and do not pretend they just call themselves a news organization and put up a news show but the rest of it is obvious. they sponsor tea party rallies and raise money for candidates. every potential republican candidate with the exception of mitt romney who was not in office right now is on the payroll of fox news. media matters added up what it costs them that was $60 million of free air time. not really for them because they are working with the service of the cause of fox news. if roger ailes d

for roosevelt they have a number of chinese by literacy programs nearby. they are also considered a middle school but has a small number, so we could not put both the chinese program and the japanese program at that one side, so we thought to put the chinese program there, and that meant we could put the japanese program at presidio. they have had a history of providing japanese instruction as well. we look at the readiness and history of the school site. those are the considerations that were thought through for that particular middle school. >> in thinking of my personal experience and having gone to fairmont and having rallied families to bring it to school enrollments so they could go to everett -- could you explain that to me as well -- i am sorry. for months -- fairmont. thank you. you know what i mean. >> we had to carefully consider the balance. in the number of schools we did select, we did consider that, so firm on is a large school, and that is why it is placed at everett -- fairmont' is a large school, and that is

i mean, franklin roosevelt light an awful lot. a good cause in terms of getting the united states into the second world war. lyndon johnson lied an awful lot in terms of that cause, getting the united states involved in vietnam. today we are critical because of what he did in vietnam, and admired roosevelt for is in world war ii. they both fly. we have a first amendment, and we have a system of checks and balances that work for the media because we know this. we know we can't trust the people in power to tell us the truth about what they're doing. well, fox news masquerades as one of the watch dog institutions, but they operate as a political organization. the lie of the time. they make things up. they expanded their opponents. they work hand in glove with politicians and political organizations and make no apology for it or even pretend to do differently. all they do is call themselves a news organization. the rest of it is quite obvious. they sponsor tea party rallies. every single potential republican candidate with the excepti

he had to know more about this great man, this president, teddy roosevelt. he had tired of looking to the american papers in english and finally found some in the progresso. it told how roosevelt hallowed invented himself over and over, from being a tickly rich kid to encounter an ex-player and a soldier and a writer and a scientist to being a politician and now he was president of the united states, the youngest president in america's history. having been sworn in with an anarchist assassinated another president. how extraordinary was that? any president replacing the assassinated president without more violence. but this roosevelt was a man of greatness. this is a man. he also decided to imitate. in those weeks, generosa had also sweated in the misery of the new york summary, every few minutes he lay sleepless in the room with no air to breathe, imagining the cool breezes on his backpack on, but not home soon. cheer carlo he had written. america is a place of dreams coming true. one day you'll join me here and we will do great things together. because he h

roosevelt, fascist. okay. it's the american communist party. here's another one, may day, same period. they did this all over the country, in 1933. condemning the roosevelt's program of, quote, forced labor for the unemployed, unquote. and who had the answer? lenin. lenin shows the way. right? lenin shows the south the only way to jobs, land and freedom. so that's what they were sending around. that's the kind of thing that they were doing. and while they're doing all of that, they're also very condemnusly very strategically trying to get progressives and liberals to join their cause. so i'll give you three cases, three examples. john dewy, john dewy, i include among a group i call progressives. and these were people in the 1920s and 1930s -- american progressives, western progressives, british as well as american who were taken to the soviet union in the 1920s and 1930s in very carefully manipulated by soviet handlers. it's extraordinary to see how they did it. it's shocking. it's shocking to see how many took the bait as well. because of the

i love the united states, the roosevelts and in the deal. when i have criticized the united states it's because the united states has not lived up to roosevelt. it has not lived up to its great tradition. that's been my criticism. the sense of disappointments and what the united states should be and was not. but now with obama i think it's good for the united states. i think it's recovered the great tradition that roosevelt and clinton and truman as some of the great presidents had. >> rose: so you're optimistic for america's future snowed >> very much. very much. it's very difficult for president obama to make the american public at large understand that the united states is no longer the sole power. you had two confrontations with the soviet union, the soviet union disappeared then you had unilateral power and now you have a country that is a great country, a powerful country but the competition comes from china india, brazil. they were considered third-world countries. >> i think you're wrong on that. i think that the united states and th

theodore roosevelt created first federal bird reserve. there are boardwalks of planks of all the wildlife refuges. you look at all the things clinton and babbitt were able to decide. do you get frustrated in the political climate and the fact so much has already been saved you will not be able to create a kind of a trophy list like some of those previous presidents did? >> you know for sure, trainingly it is not about the creating a trophy list but i am, doug, very excited about what it is that which can do. i will give you just two examples of new national wildlife refuges that we have created. one is in the flint hills of kansas where the last remaining of the tall grass prairie ecosystem, 1.1 million acres will go into national conservation program. another wildlife refuge. very interesting. when i went to the meeting where we actually dedicated the flint hills national conservation area, sat around the table with about 30 of the stakeholders that helped us in the creation of the flint hills conservation area and yes, it included tradi

., the roosevelt consensus about the role of government, the social safety net that f.d.r. created in the midst of the great depression. that was the governing consensus. ronald reagan had to take that into account in 1980. george will the conservative columnist famously said that the american conservative wants to conserve the new deal. social security had been an issue for republicans, and reagan was no exception of that. the fact is that after ronald reagan -- the best evidence is when bill clinton said "the year big government is over." in many ways that was bill clinton who was famously an activist in his own approach to government acknowledging the new preveiling wisdom, the anti-washington move, if you will, that had been bee queethed -- bequeathed to him. the fact he was reading reagan's bog if i tells you about where his reading is after the center of gravity 20 years after he left office. >> you are presidential director of five libraries? >> yes host: this morning the washington times looking at the newly renovated library. what's different? what's changed? guest

when roosevelt died i cried. because i had the prospect of my commanding officer, my commanding chief. later when i was in submarines i began to appreciate what harry truman stood for. i think he was honest. i doubt if he ever used a $0.03 stamp that he didn't pay for. he was under tremendous pressure from the same people that tried to prevent president johnson putting in place the civil rights act. he was under the pressure of dick russell and strom thurmond and many others. truman, already unpopular. he went out of office the most unpopular president in history. ordained commander in chief and all racial discrimination in military forces was over. that day. he was condemned severely by all his generals and admirals and overwhelmingly in the congress and by many other people in america. my life on the submarine was change by that decision. affected my whole future. after truman left office, progress made on civil-rights. that was before rosa parks sat in front of a school bus and martin luther king became active

this book concentrates on the way out of the roosevelt wrote a script for firstly. ever -- every first letter says al or has either follow the script or hasn't followed the script but at least they've had to read descriptor deadhead you know about it. lots of books on eleanor roosevelt but what this book does is tell what she did in the white house to make the job of first lady more than just that of a hostess or somebody with interest perhaps in a cause or to. she'd really made the first ladyship a potent part of the american presidency. >> so was the script that she wrote giving the first lady our role to play in policy? >> the script showed what a first lady to do. description oh that the first lady makes the job of the president to live into one in which she could promote the administration. she could show the public that the presidency was interested in individuals. she was the public face of her husband, a political program, the new deal. but because she traveled so much and because she would had and made love of the people, she personalized the presidency and

well, this book concentrates on the way eleanor roosevelt wrote the script for first ladies. now, every first lady since eleanor has either followed the script or hasn't followed the script, but at least they've had to read the script. they've had to know about it. there are lots of books on eleanor roosevelt, but what this book does is tell what she did in the white house to make the job of first lady more than just that of a hostess or somebody who was interested, perhaps, in a cause or two. she really made the first ladyship a potent part of the american presidency. >> so was the script that she wrote giving the first lady a role to play in policy? >> >> the script show what happened a first lady could do. the script showed that the first lady could make the job of the president's wife of into one in which she could promote the administration, she could show the public that the presidency was interested in individuals, chef the public face of her concern she was the public -- she was the public face of her husband's political program, the new deal. but because she traveled

wrong then and now and i don't care what kind of questionnaire it is i will yell it at the president, roosevelt, whoever, it was wrong and it matters. he says it has to matter. to me it's the speech i gave him was drawn from what's happening i think in the country right now in relationship to the war. who is considered patriotic who is considered a trader? and the point of a play to me is that it isn't just the museum piece. that, in fact, it does have relevancy now. and that it does spark a certain amount of controversy in relationship to what goes on now. >> twice in the same day the auditorium was standing room only. new york times best seller crediting mortson came to talk about his book. cup of tea. . he talked about the penny for peace campaign. the provides education for the communities of pakistan and afghanistan. >> i came back to america, i was broke after k 2. i had to raise 12 thousand dollars. and i didn't know how a clue of how to raise money like that. i went to the local library. any librarians here? let's give them a big hand. [applause] so, i went to the library, i talked to t

so he spent 10 months on the jail on blackwell's island which is a roosevelt island. and then sailed to england. he is, however, buried in queens. [inaudible] as a brick, i'm looking in. this morning on npr i am hearing so many stories that time has a sort of move forward. >> yeah. i mean, i do think there has been progress in new york. i really do. just to give you an example, in the late 1890s in the wake of an investigation of police corruption known as the likes of city and which, of course, my guys were all over the map, and administration was voted in. this administration actually did try to reform things. the police commissioner of this administration was theodore roosevelt, for example, and he tried to clean up the police department and succeeded to a limited degree. but i thought a better example of reform and his administration was a guy named george who was named commissioner of street cleaning. he did something unusual without. he cling to the street. we look at pictures of new york in the early 1890s, and the manure is literally shoulder high. he created

ads president roosevelt it's not what we have that will make us a great nation. it's how we use it. i was fortunate enough to serve under a great environmental president, the only one that i think actually grew up in a national park. he used to remind me of that all the time. and he took that to hart. president clinton recognized that our natural waters and lands were -- he worked with the vice president, bruce bab bit. mike domback and many others. hal protected more land in the lower 48 states than any over president before him including five new national parks in and 19 new national monments. i think he took care to protect existing public labbeds as well. he adopted a rule to protect road less forests that dramatically slode the development of over 60 million acres of national forest and an achievement that the subsequent administration did all it could to try to screw up. but although they tried mightly. i think the heart that rules preserved under the secretary's leadership will move forward. i think those of us that served in that administration tried to focus, doug, on what

theodore roosevelt established it. i have read a little bit of press action coming out of the tea party movement. are you willing to embrace and make sure the antiquities at stays on the books and make sure there is not an -- act stays on the books and make sure there is not an overturning of that? >> absolutely. president obama and this administration do not want to give up that authority. having said that, one of the things we are doing differently in america also great outdoors is that we are listening to what communities want us to do. one of the chapters in the great outdoors report indicates we will reach out to the american public and listen to communities across the united states to find out which of those areas they believe are appropriate for my e-mail designation under the antiquities act. -- appropriate for designation under the antiquities act. >> one of the separate -- one of the separate places i would like to see is the national park in the state of maine. i was wondering, do you get frustrated at all?

we are the party of jefferson, roosevelt, kennedy, clinton, obama. we are the party and held a solis -- hill but solis. we are the party of young americans studying for college degrees and older americans who are training in new fields. we are party of wage workers, entrepreneurs and small-business owners, hard working mothers and fathers all across this country. that is to we are. we are the some of america's strength, and the sun is always greater than the parts. together we are going to win in 2012 and we are going to win the future. thanks very much. [applause] >> we will look now at the weekly addresses. , first obama urges congress to find common ground to avoid a shutdown. center rob portman talks about the need for economic growth and job creation. he also criticizes the president's budget request. this is 10 minutes. >> over the last month, have been traveling the country, talking to americans about how we can out educate, innovate, and out build the rest of the world. doing that were will acquire a government that lives within it means and

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and the roosevelt house was one of the last. it's impressive how they engineer those collapses to implode inwards. >> people flock to it. people love to watch stuff blow up and crumble. >> it's impressive. >>> now to hollywood's biggest night, the academy awards. this year, new younger hosts but not a lot of surprises. >> how did your favorites do? diana alvear joins us from the red carpet. good morning. what's the buzz in hollywood? >> reporter: oh, my goodness. it has been so much fun standing here because it's basically celebrity boulevard right behind me. we've seen everybody and anybody walking out. they've got those amazing oscar statues. so fun. let me tell you, tonight it's all hail the king because it was triumphant for "the king's speech" and won the most coveted award, best picture. >> can i stay here until matt damon comes back? >> no. >> reporter: proving they were the perfect picks to host, anne hathaway and james franco opened with a virtual reality romp with scenes in several films nominated for best picture. the

franklin roosevelt was the president. he represented the net assets of america in wartime. my parents, i commend everyone i knew what look to him. >> and you were so taken with stevenson that he ran for congress at the age of 29. very dark horse dan rather than he is nowadays. what movie to begin says in? >> i was the longest of long shots. i worked in washington for to congress, one from ohio and one from michigan. suddenly out of the blue the woman who was the congresswoman who had succeeded her husband occupying that congressional district from 1932 until 1960. she announced she was not going to run for reelection. that thought to myself, my goodness. that family owned by district for my entire lifetime. he may not get another chance. a talked to joyce. she's gained. something like 100 volunteers helping. people running around with things on their cars and earrings and buttons and bumper stickers and sure enough i was fortunate one of the things that might have helped is that president kennedy had an elected two years before. he was so young, running for congress at 29,

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theodore roosevelt is coming up too, a bit. when you do popular polls, j.f.k. comes out way at the head, which is kind of interesting. it's a really tough question. because lincoln is a poet as well as a president. at the second inaugural, it's one of the most lyrical pieces of writing, and profound. and the civil war is a great crisis. my ultimate answer is the american revolution is a greater crisis. that we wouldn't have had the civil war if we hadn't won the american revolution. and that washington defines the presidency more than any other president before or since. he has the advantage again of becoming the president, but if you read the constitution, it spends very little time talking about what the president can do. it spends a lot of time talking about how to elect him and how to impeach him. but washington defines the office as nobody else before or since. i've made a point of arguing in earlier work that the founding fathers are a collective, that no single person stands above all others. but washington comes pretty darn close. to being the one. by t

i suspect, as i said, of franklin roosevelt i've come to see him as i don't know who else would have taken up the cause against -- [inaudible] as well as he did -- the nazis as well as he did, and i think he's to be respected for that. so my views have changed a bit, and my way of writing has changed a bit. i remember in "public nuisances" i was extremely critical of theodore white, teddy white, and i wrote a thunderous denunciation of him. and i've come to find that i think teddy white? teddy white in later years was a force of good for the world, and i apologize for what i've said. >> host: and you also list arthur schlessinger as one of your favorite authors. >> guest: yeah, you know, if you want the standard liberal view of america, you can do no better than read arthur schlesinger. arthur schlesinger was a wonderful, wonderful writer, and i kind of miss his passing and the passing of that whole generation that was made up of very thoughtful liberals. i'm not sure that they, that their heirs are living up to the great tradition that they established. >> host: you lived here in wa

but franklin roosevelt was the president. he represented the united states of america asked for time. and my parents, i and everyone i knew looked to him as the leader of the country into was enormously important figure for an jongh man. >> you were taken from stevenson and what he said and i assume that his influence over the fact that he ran for congress of the age of 29, very dark horse, 1952. most people don't run for congress that early or at least they did in those days. it was younger than it is nowadays. what moved you to get in so soon? >> i was the longest of long shots. i had been away from my home district for a decade. on for years to college, three and a half and the needy and the am i worked in washington for the congressman, one from ohio and one from michigan. i never met a congressman in my life, and then i had gone back to chicago, home and suddenly out of the blue, a woman who was the congressman who succeeded her husband and a that congressional district from 32 until 1960 she announced she wasn't going t

president woodrow wilson appointed the secretory daniels in 1913 and his assistant was franklin roosevelt. with the war waging in europe, daniels became increasingly concerned about the preparation the needed to make to ensure that the u.s. navy could operate at the maximum efficiency if and when america entered the war. in early 1917, concerned about having enough men to man the ships, daniel asked his adviser about having enough navy. he said as the absence of the word of u.s. citizens allow him to enlist women in the navy and lift from those advisers daniels ordered the new u.s. navy to enlist women and the women floated to the recruiting stations and they signed up and they were sworn into the navy. the congress decided to change what they saw as the navy regulations and changed it back to the u.s. citizen. if the word meal in front of that. the single word of the united states official document. they are extremely important with the full rights to the citizenship to the men and women in the country the word u.s. citizen automatically includes women when the rights and privileges are

annual day of remembrance takes place in communities across the nation to mark the day when franklin roosevelt signed the order which led to the incarceration of japanese americans on the gulf coast. they had their homes, possessions and their livelihoods taken away. >> we need to constantly remind america about this because they don't seem to know about it and the possibility of it happening again is always lurking in the shadows. >> reporter: some people who attended the event see -- say they see the same type of discrimination against muslim members. >> do i know you? >> what's wrong, point-eight million in its a thriller topped the box office this weekend. "unknown"." he a wakeness from a coma to find his wife claims she does not know him. >>> "i am number 4" debuted in second place. >>> well, gas prices have jumped more than a nickel over the past two weeks nationwide. the average price of a gallon of regular is 3.18. that's up from 5 sends from a couple of weeks ago. among all the surveyed cities, drivers in san francisco pay the most at 3.5 4 a gallon. >>> a doctor allegedly drunk made

franklin roosevelt. it is not like the private sector where you have management pushing back. not a fair fight. in the state, the union's controlling the legislature. it is not bargaining. they got what ever they wanted. one of the arguments against the government is if he had not given away tax breaks he would have had a surplus because scsin is not in as bad shape as illinois and the jersey and california. >> everybody understands that the pension andeahenit are not sustainable. and also they are unfair. all the governor is asking -- with this riots -- not riots, t e motrations are about -- is asking the public employee union to pay half of what the private sector people pay in contributing to health and pensions. half. and what happens? thtehe in madison kansas school for three days to demonstrate and to drag students out to demonstrations. >> it is not actually trha it is half of what most of us pay -- >> half of what the average is in wisconsin. as opped to 12%. >> charles was right about the unfunded pension liabilities -- they are notustainable >> they happen because th

., the roosevelt consensus about the role of government, the social safety net that f.d.r. created in the midst of the great depression. that was the governing consensus. ronald reagan had to take that into account in 1980. george will the conservative columnist famously said that the american conservative wants to conserve the new deal. social security had been an issue for republicans, and reagan was no exception of that. the fact is that after ronald reagan -- the best evidence is when bill clinton said "the year big government is over." in many ways that was bill clinton who was famously an activist in his own approach to government acknowledging the new preveiling wisdom, the anti-washington move, if you will, that had been bee queethed -- bequeathed to him. the fact he was reading reagan's bog if i tells you about where his reading is after the center of gravity 20 years after he left office. >> you are presidential director of five libraries? >> yes host: this morning the washington times looking at the newly renovated library. what's different? what's changed? guest

i suspect, as i said, of franklin roosevelt i've come to see him as i don't know who else would have taken up the cause against -- [inaudible] as well as he did -- the nazis as well as he did, and i think he's to be respected for that. so my views have changed a bit, and my way of writing has changed a bit. i remember in "public nuisances" i was extremely remember in "public nuisances" i was extremely critical of theodore white became a little teddy white. i wrote the denunciations of him. i have come to find teddy white in later years was a force for good in the world. i apologize for the things i said. >> host: you list arthur schlesinger as one of your favorite authors. >> guest: if you want the standard liberal view of america you can do no better than reading arthur schlesinger. he was a wonderful writer. i miss his passing and the passing of that whole generation that made up very thoughtful liberals. i am not sure that their heirs are living up to the great tradition they established. >> host: you have lived in washington long time. we have 30 seconds left. who would we be sur

of an era. 150 pounds of explosives brought down a building that was once a part of franklin elmore roosevelt's public housing policy. hundreds watched as a building that stood for 70 years was reduced to rubble in a matter of seconds. low income housing will be built in its place. >>> and, finally, in ohio, shirtless men and bikini clad women brave frigid conditions all for a good cause. more than 500 people ran and dove into lake erie to fundraise for the special olympics. organizers expect to raise more than $90,000, more than $90,000 than they took in last year. >>> now here is bill karims with the weather channel forecast. i know that you are just chomping at the bit to go out there and do something just like that. >> never. no. you'll find me jumping in the water in miami. that's about it. let's talk about what happened over the weekend. we saw snow in san francisco. we had snow at very low elevations outside of tucson, arizona, and it was a very cold weekend. temperatures this morning still chilly. 39 in vegas. the red carpet didn't look too bad last night. it was whoil, though. we're at

of remembrance takes place in communities across the nation to mark the day when president franklin roosevelt signed executive order 9066 which led to the incarceration of japanese americans on the west coast. thousands lived in camps for the duration of the war and had their homes, possessions and their lifely hood taken away. >> we need to constantly remind america about this because they don't seem to know about it and the possibility of it happening again is always in, lurking in the shadows. >> some people who attended the event say they see the same kind of discrimination against muslim americans today. japanese americans suffered during world war ii. >>> in other bay area headlines, san franciscoans may be as green as they think. according to a new sura lot of people are clueless when it comes to the recycling and composting lawings, department of environment officials say 1/3 of what is being tossed in the trash could actually be recycled or composted. one of the biggest trip-ups. plastics. pretty much all plastic except for plastic bags can be recycled. lunar new year a spring festiv

ten warming centers in san jose, including this one at the roosevelt community center. they're open from 8:00 a.m. to noon, and we posted a list of all the warming centers on our web site at abc-7 abc7news.com. >> blossoms are still on the trees and farmers are bracing for possible crop damage. farmers are running water to raise temperatures in their orchards. >>> a snowfall predicted to fall at sea level, failed to live up to its billing today, and most of it just didn't stick. the sheer novelty of anything white falling out of the sky was something to marvel out. here's lisa amin gulezian. >> snow at the coast. something we have never seen in our 12 years of being here. >> lisa: the images came flooding into abc-7 sey you report. >> now we got to start palm trees. >> lisa: from the coast the mountain tops, to mount tam to the north and uc santa cruz to the south there, was snow. small flakes found near this shell gas station on 19th in san francisco. the last time it snowed in the city was in 1976. and today, people wanted more. >> i was hoping it was going to snow, b

as president roosevelt said it is not what we have that will make us a great nation, is the way we use it. i was of course fortunate enough to serve under a great environmental president, the only one i.t. to actually grew up in the national park. he used to remind me of that all the time, and he took that advice to heart. president clinton recognize our land and waters are central to our prosperity and to our natural -- national spirit, and he's working with a great group of people including the vice president bruce babbitt, dan glickman and many others. he predicted more land in the lower 48 states and other president before him and putting the five national parks in the national monument. i think that he took care to protect existing land as well as about a rule to protect the ruthless forests that protect the development of the over 60 million acres of national forests, an achievement of the subsequent administration really did all it could to try to screw up, but all the way they tried mightily, the heart of that is preserved under the secretaries leadership will move forward. i t

franklin roosevelt. it is not like the private sector where you have management pushing back. not a fair fight. in the state, the union's controlling the legislature. it is not bargaining. they got what ever they wanted. >> one of the arguments against the government is if he had not given away tax breaks he would have had a surplus because wisconsin is not in as bad shape as illinois and the jersey and california. >> everybody understands that the pension and health benefits are not sustainable. and also they are unfair. all the governor is asking -- with this riots -- not riots, but the demonstrations are about -- is asking the public employee union to pay half of what the private sector people pay in contributing to health and pensions. half. and what happens? the teaches in madison kansas school for three days to demonstrate and to drag students out to demonstrations. >> it is not actually true that it is half of what most of us >> half of what the average is in wisconsin. 6% as opposed to 12%. >> charles was right about the unfunded pension liabilities -- they are not sus

roosevelt democrat on the 13th district is a republican. his family were real outliers. jack and sub four were democrats and republican county and they were reared in all sorts of ways actually. not where the disturbing weird, but just different. they were very theatrical people i may rather stoic tightlipped farm country. they love to put on plays and stuff and they were quite flamboyant. they were kind of bohemians in a way. he was a big fan. he was reluctant to mention this, but dixon was a time where black teeple weren't allowed to spend the night, were not welcome to spend the night in a hotel, any hotel and expand during the 1920s and 1930s. but that wasn't the case. one day i related in the book where he and dixon on the way back from playing sunday summer and they point to a hotel. and there were two black players on the team. and the hotel manager says the outcome we've got room for your team, except for two black layers. in the coach, mack mackenzie was his name, a task kingston said will go to another hotel. no hotel in town as a